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Patented March 29,1881.

i* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOWARD SELVAGE, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO RUFUS WATERHOUSE, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKTIE-SHIELD.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,347, dated March291, 1881.

Application filed February 1, 1881.

To all whomI it may ooncern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD SELVAGE, of the city of Brooklyn,` in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, am the inventor of an Improved Necktie-Shield, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription,

` edges thereof-whereby the flexibilityflatwise laterally of the shield,and at the same time its rigidity and Stiffness edgewise vertically, areincreased, as hereinafter at length described.

Figure l is a face view of a ncoktie-shield embodying my invention, andFig. 2 is a top edge view of the same.

In fabricating myimproved shield, l take a sheetof metal, card-board,heavy cloth, or such other similar material as is adapted for thepurpose, and which has been given the proper and desired Outline for theshield, and 1 corrugate or flute the same either throughout its entireextent, as shown in the drawings, or for only a portion of itsextent-say, for instanc'e, that portion midway between the ends or wingsof the shield.

flutes so that the lines or axes thereof are vertical of the shield-thatis to say, so that they extend in direction between the upper and loweredges of the shield as shown in Fig. This corrugating or fluting maybedone by means of suitably-constructed rolls, between I form thesecorrugatious or (No model.)

which the material of the shield is passed, or by any of the known Waysof producing these forms.

The shield may be covered on its front side by a strip of the materialwhich is to constitute the stuff of the tie or scarf before the flutingor corrugating is done, if desire-d, and when stiif cloth or card-boardis used the materi-al may be oaused to adhere thereto by glue, paste, orother suitable adhesive substanoe. If the material is secured to theshield after the shield is fluted, it should be allowed to lie somewhatloosely on the front of the shield, so that the fiatwise flexibility ofthe shield will not be thercby obstruoted.

It is evident that a shield thus formed With corrugations or flutesthroughout the entire or a portion of its eXteut, and with the lines oraxcs thereof Vertical of the shield, will have its flexibility flatwiselaterally, and its rigidity edgewise vertically, increased, both ofwhich results are exceedingly desirable.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture,| a necktie or scarf shield of stifi'material corrugated or fluted throughout the entire or aportion of itsexteut, the lines or axes of said oorrugations i or flutes beingvertical-that is to say,extending in direction between the upper andlower edges thereof as and for the pnrpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of January,A. D. 1881.

HOWARD SE LVAGE.

In presence of-- A. G. N. VERMILYE, HENRY EIDLING.

